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AllyB

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  1. Tbh, I've found the way this is made pretty boring. The whole two universe thing was obvious from the first episode, so the whole, slow, slow, dreamy, ponderous, slow drip, drip of the 'reveal' was incredibly dull. I found the Paul episode one of the better ones, as it moved through the plot of five episodes in one, so even though it was unnecessary and we learned nothing new, it was less boring. This had the potential to be a hell of a lot more interesting than it was but the way it's made means I keep drifting away from what's happening.
  2. In For All Mankind it's the opposite. Though like Lucy in the Sky, that storyline is based in part on real events. Lucy is loosely based on Lisa Nowack. And in FAM, the story is based on Gordon Cooper's repeated insistences that he saw UFOs on many of his flights.
  3. So Clara went back to Fredrick once she heard he'd inherited some money. Romantic! My main question through this episode was why it was airing in late winter/spring if was to end at Christmas on a big snowy scene. I'm assuming it must have been intended to start in October and end in December but it got pushed back for some reason.
  4. There is just the one episode left right? It's the only reason I'll keep watching (that and the general lack of new shows due to the strikes). I was gutted that episode six wasn't the final one because I'm just sick of it and want it to be over. It's not even enjoyably, campy bad. It's just bad, bad and while the actors are all probably fine, none of them gives a performance that elevates the content. At least in the original series there was the Tamsin Grieg/Paul Ritter reunion that made me smile to think about a lovely bit of squirrel.
  5. I know Fellows didn't actually write this but it's very weird that this show has a major storyline almost identical to one that was just a major storyline on The Gilded Age. And as bad as The Gilded Age is in a lot fo ways, it was still very superior in every way, to this.
  6. Is everyone seriously saying that they aren't enjoying the same fart joke on repeat each episode? Downloaded Nathan farts a lot guys! Farts are smelly. Also, apparently he's fat now.
  7. Is it just me or does Nathan seem kind of dopey in a way that he wasn't in the first two seasons. Both downloaded and reboot Nathans, just seem to be blithely going along with things in a slightly vacant manner. It's striking me as either bad writing in a failed attempt at humour or a sign that for some reason, when a person exists as two separate consciousnesses, neither of them exists to their full potential and they will have to merge into each other at the end of the season.
  8. Dreams, by The Cranberries was the closing song.
  9. It wasn't created by Horgan. It's an adaptation of a Finnish series called Clan (or The Out-Laws in English translation) that was made in 2012. The first few episodes are practically identical though it diverges a bit once it goes on.
  10. That genuinely made no sense. Especially considering that it completely veered away from the clear original intention of the story as laid out in the opening scenes of the first episode. Sheila was a put upon, insecure housewife. Any meanness in her came from her own insecurity, unhappiness and unaddressed trauma. Aerobics would empower her but lead to her becoming more cutthroat. By 1986, she would be massively successful but really not nice. Instead we got whatever the hell that was. And also, what was with the closing song? Sheila VOs about succeeding at her dream, so they picked the first song about dreams that came up on a google search and didn't care that they were ending their very 80s show, with a very, very 90s song?
  11. I genuinely assumed Rory would go get a masters. Rory never really took the best from her time at Yale. In her first year she clung too much to home. Second year she was torn between Dean and moving on to Logan. Third year, she didn't attend for months. Fourth year, she was deeply unsettled at the thought of leaving when she had just found her rhythm at school. She was someone who loved being in education but she was too immature when she went to Yale to really absorb it. Going back as an older woman, who'd lived in the real world enough to know more about what she didn't know, could have led to her having the experience of Yale, or any college, that she never quite got as an under-grad. I thought that she either would do as Charleston suggested and get a masters in Education and become a teacher. Which would have been a great career for her. Or she'd take his advice, but differently, and get an MA/MFA in Literature or Creative Writing. And write a book while also really enjoying college life for a couple of years. Then, after getting published and having moderate success, she'd also maybe end up teaching at college level. Which I think she'd enjoy more than at a high school.
  12. I thought I'd caught a brief flash of Bunny in the trailer so I wouldn't be surprised if she was at least. I could have been wrong though and I don't care enough to watch it again.
  13. I'm not sure that the writers know what they are doing? I'm left wondering at this point if they even remember that the very first scenes of this show were Sheila being a massive success who was a dismissive bitch to the production woman in 1986. The whole show just seems to have characters who lurch through different motivations from episode to episode. Or even within the same scene sometimes. And I honestly can't tell what the hell they are going for with John Breem and his wife and Sheila's feelings for him. When she was crying at the thought of never seeing him again, I was wondering if she was setting him up or something. Not actually emotionally devastated to lose him. I also find it really irritating that the writers think that all of the women they recruited, women who have very clearly spent years in regular athletic training, need Sheila to explain to them how empowering and strengthening exercise can be for women. Especially the woman who was weightlifting. That's just patronising to all women everywhere.
  14. Those listed were all nods to the original Star Wars movie. And they are events specific to this series, they never happened in the Foundation books. These were all little nods to A New Hope.
  15. I hadn't mentioned in my other posts but I loved all the little nods to Star Wars in this episode. The title, Long Ago, Not Far Away. Glawen and his squadron as they go into battle, like Luke and rest of Red Squadron at the battle of Yavin. A lone fighter being able to destroy an enormous space ship by a chain reaction caused by a single shot. And Constant, forced to watch helplessly as her home planet is Alderaaned by her captors. It does make me assume that Salvor and Gaal will feel a disturbance, as if 'millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.' As we established in A Necessary Death that they feel the suffering of everything around them. I imagine Salvor in particular will feel her home's destruction no matter where in the galaxy she is. Whether they will feel that when it happens or somehow in advance of it, is what I can't guess.
  16. As for the episode, I think it's likely one of two things have happened. One, is that Terminus, while being the beginning of Foundation, was not by this point the main hub of (first) Foundation. Thespin, Anacreon and the other planets (Smyrno, Daribow & Glyptal IV appear on Demerzel's report in S2Ep1 as Foundation allies) that have joined with Foundation, are where the real knowledge and power of Foundation lies. Terminus was the focal point for Empire and was sacrificed to make Day think he has won so they can continue on without Empire's attention. When Constant/Hari told Day that the technology of Foundation made them mathematically assured to win against Empire, he may have been taunting Day, leading him to come to Terminus in person, with Demerzel. That episode was called A Necessary Death, which may have been a reference to the the destruction of Terminus being a necessary sacrifice for Hari's long term plan, which was likely to give the VaultRadiant to Demerzel. The other possibility is an outlier. But we know Gaal, Salvor and physical Hari are at least several weeks behind. Their defeat of Tellum is concurrent with Terminus/Empire in episode 2 and 3. We don't know what Gaal, Salvor and physical Hari have been doing. But we do know, even knowing she was trapped and going to Vault Hari for help to save Gaal, Salvor wanted to know how Terminus was faring in it's second crisis. Vault Hari calls her, "ever the Warden" and while his refusal to answer if Terminus survives, implies it doesn't. It is that, which inspires her to tell him about Hober Mallow and indicat that she's an outlier who can change the maths. In the time between the events on Ignis and Terminus, Poly and Constant have been able to find and rescue Hober Mallow, bring him back to Foundation, meet Vault Hari, go on their separate missions to Trantor/the Spacers, each get captured, Hober escapes then rescues Constant, have sex, get captured again, sit through events on Terminus and witness it's destruction. That's a lot of time to get things done. So has Salvor used that time to attempt to save Terminus? Could she and Gaal have managed to bring the rest of the Mentallics to their side? Could they, together project an illusion of the destruction of Terminus that would fool Day? Terminus may have been prepared to be sacrificed, but Salvor, the warden, the outlier, changes that?
  17. I guess it could potentially be a casualty of the strike but filming of S3 seems to have started back in the spring and is on hiatus since the strike. I don't know why, but the renewal announcements for Foundation come long after work on the season has started. It was the same for season 2, I knew a lot of people on the crew and they had been back at work for ages when S2 was announced as renewed. It seemed like a very odd decision as a lot of the commentary from people watching the first couple of episodes of S1 were that it would never get a second season, when I knew the second season was well under way. It put people off watching for no reason.
  18. For some reason I was thinking about this show yesterday and I started wondering about how Lorelai would feel about Rory's potential mother in laws. If Rory married a guy who was every bit as close to his mother as Rory is to Lorelai, Lorelai would probably have an existential crisis. Especially if the mother was someone with a creative job that Rory admired and cool hobbies. And super especially if she was an older woman. Lorelai lived for Rory's friends and boyfriends being so impressed by how young and cool she was and envious of her relationship with Rory. In a lot of ways it validated her having had Rory so young. She might have missed out on a lot of her youth but she sees it as a trade off, as it gave her a special bond that made her an especially understanding, fun mother. If Rory married a man with a great relationship with his older mother, she'd be utterly invalidated. I could imagine her being in constant manic competition to be the funnest grandma ever with the other grandma being kind of bemused by Lorelai and just getting on with being an actual great grandmother.
  19. I actually quite liked ep 6. I liked Sheila speaking out about her problems and that there are no quick fixes to making real change in your life. It also reminded me how much I disliked Greta last year when she reacted so selfishly to Sheila having an eating disorder. She doesn't view Sheila as an actual person with complicated feelings. She wants Sheila to be who she wants her to be and is repeatedly angry when Sheila's problems mean she can't live up to Greta's view of her. Sheila can be an awful friend too but she doesn't try to make Greta into someone she isn't and act like the victim when it doesn't work.
  20. I don't think those shows usually work very well do they? BH90210 comes to mind and all the new cast sucked and anyone I know who watched it, literally just watched the Kelly and Brenda scenes. And they were terrible as they retconned a lot of the original events. The nearest thing I can think of like that, which works is Karate Kid to Cobra Kai but the original protagonists are still the main protagonists, with a mostly likeable bunch of kids actively under their tutelage. The main reason CK works is because the writers clearly have a lot of respect for the originals and have really gotten under the skins of Johnny and Daniel and developed them in ways that are true to the original characters. They never sideline them as silly old past it people, even if they are occasionally out of their depth with modern social mores. The new kids are never cool just because they are young. I think an AJLT where the og characters were shown in minor roles supporting a new batch of younger women would have been even worse than what we have. The og cast would have been even more constantly humiliated as out of touch. Because MPK doesn't respect the originals and has no grasp of who they were as characters.
  21. I wonder if Aidan's older kids are really pissed with Wyatt. They came so close to having their own rooms in an amazing apartment in an upscale Manhattan neighborhood until their little brother ruined it all! They'll resent him for life.
  22. Not only that but they said goodbye from the Grammarcy apartment. So either before, after or between bouts of sex, they went from the last supper to Carrie's new place.
  23. Aidan dove way too fast into his relationship with Carrie as far as his kids are concerned. Wyatt is only 13 and clearly not in a good place. Aidan should really have waited 6 months to a year before even making him aware that he was in a relationship. Especially when he was getting back into a relationship that had imploded twice already. Odds are he and Carrie wouldn't work out, so why make his kid even have to think about it until he was absolutely sure it was something that could last? Especially as Carrie and Aidan live far apart in very different environments. They had an awful lot to work through as a couple to see if they could make it long term successful. Because I don't believe that Aidan would have continued to be happy spending every second week in New York once the excitement of a new relationship ended. Maybe he'd have been ok with one week a month if they took turns but I don't think Carrie would have coped with a week a month in rural Virginia. Their best bet, seeing as how they are both super rich, would be for one of them to buy a house somewhere like a fashionable coastal Delaware town and regularly meet in the middle. But with Aidan only being a few hours drive from home which would be quicker than having to rely on flights if there is an emergency. Even if it was working out once it gets more mundane, it would still be a good idea to keep Carrie and his kids reasonably separate. As in Wyatt could know his dad has a partner but without Carrie trying to be a meaningful part of his life. Because even if Carrie and Aidan made the 5 years of Wyatt's remaining teens work as a long distance, see each other twice a month type relationship. Then what? Long term, I think that a week on/off suits Carrie if Aidan keeps coming to her. I think she'd have happily done that for the rest of her life. But Aidan wouldn't. Once Wyatt was grown up Aidan would want his partner to live with him full-time and he wouldn't want to be in NYC full time. But Carrie won't live anywhere but Manhattan. These two are so unlikely to work out that Aidan really should be keeping his relationship with her and his children very separate because the likelihood of Carrie and Wyatt ever being important to each other is really slim.
  24. It's possible for triplets to consist of two identical twins and one fraternal sibling. It's a more common occurrence than three identical triplets. And actually, the doll props for Charles' patter song were two identical baby dolls and a third different doll. So possibly "two Bens" and a Dickie.
  25. So was the last 5 minutes or so of that episode a dream? It seemed she genuinely had a panic attack hanging out with Kelly and passed out. Then dreamed she woke up, was in the fashion show, had a public freakout and everyone laughed, then ate her way through a bath filled with cookies. After which she woke for real and Breem was there.
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